https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151614
--- Comment #105 from Pino Toscano <pino kde org> 2010-05-21 22:13:45 --- > WHATS THE HOLD UP? The situation is still the same: missing annotation editing support in poppler. > I would certainly welcome an official answer too. Like the ones that have been said for years? For example, comments #21, #44, and #65. > > 1. libpoppler was created with the intention of a readonly library > > therefore it > > does not support writing back to the pdf stream. > > *input* library has nothing to do with *output* library. "Print to PDF" works > for many years already, so "copy to PDF and add annotations" might be an easy > enough task to do, even if it was outside poppler. (The separation might even > be positive.) poppler's architecture can, and is being (slowly) changed, but the main job is missing. > There is another pdf library being developed, but in very > early stages which should remedy this issue. I forgot the name, but I think it > is even sposored by the FSF. gnupdf? It does not even have a lexer for reading the PDF format from a file... (and thus not read a document) Some might (or already did) also refer to podofo. There are various problems of using two libraries for PDF files, like: - different ways of reading the document (thus potential different results) - two implementations which own bugs to deal with - different kind of support of the PDF format in each of them and so on... in short: you get, potentially, the advantanges of two libraries, but also the problems of two different libraries at once. > 2. The okular developers are satisfied enough with the situation as it is > today. As they do it in their spare time they do not want to spend too much > time on this. Oh please... > And offered to do the necessary programming. I have seen so far nobody (who isn't a poppler developer already) providing any kind of work for annotation-related tasks. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugs.kde.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ Okular-devel mailing list Okular-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/okular-devel
